Hey, I have had a problem with no matter what android phone I have. This has been doing it for quite some time but I dealt with it but last night I lost 12 GB of music so here it is:
Whenever I move music in these situations, it will erase all ID3 Tag information (Artist, Album, etc) and all it has is the file name. I had 2000 songs with artist names and all, but when moved it all became unknown artist. Here are the situations:
Galaxy S3: Moving Music from one folder to another (Like from a Download folder to my music folder on external SD). Or from moving music from internal to external or vice versa.
Optimus G: Moving music from one folder to another on the internal storage (Again, like from a download to music folder).
Evo 4G: Just moving from folder to folder.
All this is done with ES. File explorer. I tried other but they do it too. It can not be device specific because it happens on almost any android. All songs are in MP4/MP3 format and maybe some .wma.
Any help would GREATLY be appreciated. Please don't comment saying "Just use google play cloud" or anything, because I do not like cloud storage's. Thanks in advance. Really need help.
If you a file explorer that doesn't do that, what is it?
I always use Root Explorer, I've never lost anything, even when I transfer from internal to external and vice versa. I'm not a big fan of streaming from the cloud either so I can understand your frustration. Try Root Explorer.
metalfan78 said:
I always use Root Explorer, I've never lost anything, even when I transfer from internal to external and vice versa. I'm not a big fan of streaming from the cloud either so I can understand your frustration. Try Root Explorer.
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Will try. Thank you
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Let us know if it works better for you.
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G'day.
So I have just begun using aDownloader on my phone, thanks to a rather generous data allowance App seems to work sweet and downloads happen as they should.
Since I have been dl'ing a bit of music lately, I thought I'd also make use of one of the stock music apps. As soon as I opened one of them, I found all the music I had dl'd had loaded automatically into the playlists, which was great...
I have now dl'd some more music, but it's not being picked up by the music app...I have looked for an "import" type function and even created a "Music" folder on my SD to store everything in the hope the music app would see that and draw from it.
So...how do I get my music (or anything) from aDownloader to where I want it to be? I have Root Explorer and ES File Explorer, so I can move things around if required...
Cheers.
You can move it with astro but use SD rescan to fix file paths
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I have a nand backup of my setup and all seems fine until I decide to add more music to my /mnt/extSdCard/Music/ folder.
New music doesn't show up using the standard Samsung Music Player app. If I eject the ext card through settings and then remount it again, it then no longer shows all my music...only a few music mp3 files. if I look in the Folders tab, it shows /extSdCard/Music/ but does not list all my sub folders with all the albums I have added.
The only way I can get back to a working Music Player that lists my music, is by restoring the and backup.
I have done a search on the internet and XDA for:
SPH-L710extSdCard Music Player missing songs (and other derivatives of that)
but so far have had no luck in getting my albums/artists/genres to come back.
On other Android phones, I used to eject the external card and remount it and all my pics/songs would update. This no longer happens. Any tips/suggestions on how to get this quirky error to come right...or am I missing something obvious? It's frustrating.
Try making a backup of your sdcard in your computer and reformat it.
Also check for the .nomedia file in the music directory. You most check in your computer or in a file explorer which let you see hidden files.
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I'm hoping someone can figure out where I'm screwing up here. I'm going a little banaynay. Music on my extsd will not appear in any music player.
Galaxy S3, new CM-based ROM installed (Synergy-S3_19Apr13_1622_r484_s). Everything is stock image at the moment, aside from inserting an SD card. To note: I saw this problem on the 5/1 CM 10.1 nightly, as well as on CM 10.1 M3.
The system mounts the SD card (formatted) as /mnt/extsd/ with no errors. I have a few directories on there, one with my Carbon Helium backup data, a /DCIM with photos, and /Music. Album app finds photos and indexes them with no issue. Carbon Helium found the back up data, ESFile Explorer reads/writes to the card with no issue.
So why won't any frigging music apps index the mp3s on this drive? It couldn't be more annoying. I've ensured I don't have any .nomedia files on there, I've killed the Media Storage service, cleared its data, and rebooted the phone to initiate a re-indexing. But it simply isn't reading that directory. Hell, the gallery apps are indexing the album art, but the music apps are blowing it.
The music apps read from the SD just fine on previous ROMS before I tried CM 10.1 M3. For some reason, after that ROM, any subsequent ROMs are evidencing this problem. Did something change with the way music data is cached?
Additionally, I thought the Media Storage service was used for all media, not just music. So why would it properly index the photos and not the music? Do have to symlink this bastard? Can you even do a symlink on a fat32 filesystem (I didn't think you could)...
Any help would be awesome.
Poweramp?
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Poweramp?
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Poweramp works. I just installed it, and it nicely asked for me to specify the directories I wanted it to scan. How thoughtful, considering these other apps simply don't . Thanks for that Aerowinder.
I still don't have an explanation for the other apps not seeing the mp3s, which makes this fix a little bittersweet, frankly. But at least I have tunes for the drive later today. Thanks my man.
I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP THE FIGHT heh
I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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That depends, with root access you can copy ringtones from an sdcard to the root storage, and then move them to the default ringtone folder in the system. They may need to be the same file type which is probably .ogg but its worth a try as far a music is concerned you could make a folder in the root storage called music and place them all on there without issue, only trouble will be finding a music player that will look for them there. The default android player probably won't so it will need to be 3rd party if you need help change the ringtones to .ogg just ask
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Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Not good...using cracked/edited app is illegal and with my small knowledge of this great forum XDA moderators/admins will not tolerate/entertain these activities...You can be barred from this forum for uploading or spreading cracked apps...
Peace....
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It's not that serious bro.... the guy just had a simple question. You take things too serious. Maybe you should mind your business. Because he simply asked a question about how you can change the storage location. He didn't ask u if it's ok and legal to use a cracked app.
Obv it's illegal but they got modified everything. Remember when rooting was taboo? Smh. If you ain't gonna answer a question... keep ya 2 cents buddy.
No need to reply to this. Your response is not wanted.
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spicy_puerto_rican said:
Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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ANYWAYYYSS...
Hey buddy. I know this an old post. I'm wondering the same thing. Did u ever find a solution??
Viviana
Nah, no one has helped since my original post was made back then. To this day, I still use the "modified" Pandora (One) and I still have not found a way to change the storage location route it automatically takes by default to save music files.
To anyone interested in taking a crack at it with the app, PM me for further "discussions."
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